MemphisMechanic

Oh, we can do ESP too... My stippled M&P would be legal there...

A broken M&P striker is quite common. Happens a lot with dryfired guns. The neat thing abou the M&P, though, is that the trigger moves through it's full range of motion without cocking the slide for every shot: Once mines is dryfired, I leave that snapcap in the chamber and just repeatedly pull the dead trigger to simulate firing: El-Prez (with a speed reload), two-reload-two, etc... all of those can be simulated pretty well. For slide-lock reloads, I use snapcaps, and will fire-reload-fire by actually dropping the striker. But for anything other than group shooting or slide-lock reloads, I'm not actually dryfiring the gun.

You're first mistake was giving some random guy on YouTube any sort of credibility. Remember that this is a guy who can ride your finger with his while you shoot, and tell you what you're doing wrong. Dryfire absolutely helps cure a flinch. But make it hard. For this type of practice, I'll take a light switch 20+ feet away, and slowly squeeze off a couple of dozen well-aimed shots (centered on the switch lever as the shot breaks).

Nice I think they just made my 'short list' of schools I need to attend.

That looks beautiful. The info came from Dan Burwell, whom you've most assuredly heard of. I'm buying a bone stock 9L next week, and I can weigh the slide then. I'd like to verify this personally, now that you've got me curious. Stock sights, barrel, and recoil assembly is 18.2oz on the Pro? We'll see about the 9L before I change the sights. Oh, and that's a beautiful Limited gun.

Pretty much the same animal as the Glock, with a little longer reset. I do not like a trigger lighter than 4.0-4.5 pounds personally, and I could've saved a lot of money spent with Glockworx and Vanek figuring that out, and maybe even made Master more quickly in the process. I shot my first weekly indoor match with the M&P 9L last night, and won overall by about the same margin as last week with the Glock. Given that it's an entirely new platform, I was very happy with that. I had to give the gun back to it's owner tonight. I'll be buying one sometime soon.

Which trigger in the 34? I've had... like... eleven. The 9L comes with the same trigger as the regular gun. The M&P PRO comes with a Performance Center trigger job and decent sights to replace the mediocre standard gun's sights. The 9L comes with plain 3-dot sights, and a factory trigger. But if you're planning on trigger work and a sight change from what the PRO uses anyway, it's cheaper in the long run. The 9L slide is also lighter by nearly 2oz, so it's like getting production/SSP legal slide lightening. I haven't shot one match with it, yet. Fired it for the first time today, and had some serious issues - mostly with primers going 'CLICK' and my weak thumb rubbing on the slide, jamming the gun. Gotta retool my grip.

I did it three times in a row with an M&P 9L, running a 13lb spring. Chambered a round, did it again and sent dummy #1 shooting across the room, did it again and sent dummy #2 clean into a very expensive picture frame. That was about in the middle of a 5 minute long series of attempts. It's been two days, and my arm hurts bad enough my eyes almost water when I try it now. With my 34, I've gotten a round caught 80% of the way into the chamber, but that's it. Short-stroked just a hair. That gun is also running a 13-lb spring with 3 coils cut off.

My daily carry is a G19 from www.summitgunbroker.com - Mark had one for $409. It was a "LEO demo unit" or something similar... and appeared to have about 50 rounds through it. Gun was very clean, barrel and breechface were slightly car ray, and it still had Glock's copper anti-sieze inside.

I'd come, but I'll be running the IPDA match 6pm-9pm at RangeUSA, just like every Tuesday night. Why not come shoot as a form of celebration, instead? Makes more sense to me. Bring 100 rounds, 3 mags, a strong-side holster, and 2 mag carriers (or reload out of a pocket) and come have fun.

In nearly every case, this is the result of too much crimp. In a 9mm, the tension on the bullet is provided by the taper of the case, NOT by the crimp. Crimping the round actually reduces the friction between the brass and the cartridge. In a 9mm, you need to think of the crimp station as simply a flare-removal die. You bell/flare the brass, drop powder and press a bullet into the case, and then crimp. At the crimp, remove enough flare so that there's no more fish-mouth to the case, and stop when the walls are straight. Just the slightest bit of inward bend is all you need. Look at a factory round for an example. More info is needed. What brand and weight bullet? what press? die used? brass headstamp? (all same, or mixed?) What length are you loading them to?

Call Brian. Talk to him about your intended setup. The price is pretty much the same everywhere you shop, and I went with Enos because his website is by FAR the best at describing what everything is, how it works, and why you do/don't need it.

At least a dozen, unless you're loading to +P pressures. Load it until it won't take a primer, or tears at the case mouth. You generally lose them before they wear out.

Or better yet, invest in a set of Sevigny Competition sights. Phenomenally fast sight picture. They are taller than the factory sights, and the front post is about half the width of the rear notch.

Huh? The 21 and 21SF use the same magazines, as long as the SF isn't fitted with an ambidextrous mag catch. Then the SF needs an identical mag with an extra cutout on the front. All of the difference in the SF is found in the backstrap, and in the polymer trigger mechanism housing which sits inside the backstrap.

That was *painful* ... It was so slow, all you could do was shoot it clean. And take a couple of naps.

Pretty much lifetime. Local buddy has a G34 with a serial number that dates around 98, and he cracked the slide at the front edge of the ejection port somewhere between 100,000 and 120,000 rounds. Sent the gun in, and it came back with a new slide. Three weeks after he got it back, the left rear lug ripped out of the frame. Sent it in again, and had the same result. They replaced every slide internal the first time, and all the frame internals the second. Basically the only thing left is the barrel. When the slide broke, it was only discovered because the gun began shooting a foot to the left at about 10 yards. The missing frame lug was found when it was broken down to clean - the pistol ran perfectly on three. Oh, and pretty much every round that gun ever ate was a reload, and they repaired it no-questions-asked.

I keep track by the thousand, as that's how many primer tubes I have for my dillon (10 tubes x 100 primers ea)... So I tend to load a thousand at a time, burn through that, and load another about 2-3 weeks later when it's gone. My carry gun (Glock 19) only has about 6,500 through it. Approximately. My IDPA/USPSA Production G34, has... er, somewhere around 50K through it. Anywhere between 42k and 55k would be about right. Oh, and for haters of Glock's fragile recoil assembly (those of you who shun the gun, or install a metal rod immediately) I have worn out three 13lb ISMI recoil springs. But I'm still on the factory original guide rod.

Damn! I was so focused on shooting SSP until I made it to Master last fall... I never considered having a classification card with an 'NV' or 'MM" stamp in every division. That would have been pretty sweet. I like the sound of 'SSP GMNV', too.

It will teach you to shoot on the move, reload, vary your shot cadence as distance/difficulty varies, draw in a hurry without fumbling, and other very applicable skills helpful in using a pistol in defense. But it is shot for score, and your enemy is the clock. Learning to competently shoot an IDPA course will allow you to stand out at CIS, Tactical Response, Front Sight, LFI, or any other training school you attend. But do not mistake it for actual training in and of its self.

I've had 27 holsters. I carry a G19 in a Comp-Tac CTAC, on a beltman belt. Best combo for IWB ever.

Federal 147gr HST, Glock 19

Wow. A Glock owner leery of Titegroup. That's like a fish being wary of water. In the IPDA National Championship for the past two years running, about 70% of us that shoot Glocks were using an FMJ bullet, and Titegroup. I've personally moved on to Solo1000 for competition loads (as it's slightly softer shooting than TG for the same power factor, but can be used under lead or moly without smoking like a freight train). Titegroup is a wonderful powder for FMJs in Glocks, and meters like a dream in a Dillon powder measure (I run a 650). 3.2gr under a 147, 3.8gr under a 124, and 4.1 gr under a 115 produce a 130PF load when shot through a Glock 34. Loading a 115gr FMJ over 4.3-4.5 grains Titegroup will get you a WWBish load that is noticeably cleaner that WWB is. Titegroup is a pretty clean powder.

$10 says that PC in that Toughbook ad still works. I picked half of a Corolla up with one on accident last week at work. Damn thing still works perfectly.

For the past week... I get off work between 4:30-5:00, go home, run 1-2 miles, come back home, and dryfire for half an hour. Buy Refinement and Repetition by Steve Anderson. Best shooting-related book ever. It's nothing but dryfire drills. Some form of structure is the best thing you can do for your practice.